I am so thankful to God for what He is doing through Possibilities Africa and me for the children of Africa. The children event and outreach this Easter weekend was such an honor and blessing. The theme of the mission was from John 3:16. We had the children memorize this verse, most of them for the very first time.

On Friday we emphasized to the children that Easter event is about the manifestation of God’s love. On Saturday the emphasis was on how they can appropriately respond to God’s love. We also taught and encouraged the children to apply 5 key spiritual practices of reading the Bible, prayer, keeping a pure heart, telling their friends about Jesus and attending Sunday school. We used the Wordless book (which uses different colors) to explain the Gospel message to the children.

Overall these were the highlights of this weekend:

• Over 20 young adults volunteered to serve with PA for the 2 days of the event.
• Over 700 kids ages 4 – 13 yrs attended the event. Most walked for over 2 hours.
• The children came from over 25 churches representing different Christian denominations
• We divided them into their respective 9 classes according to their ages for easy teaching
• Over 400 children made personal confession of faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and savior.
• Over 65 children workers from the local churches were trained. Most have been serving without any training.
• The children workers expressed a desire for more training
• There is a need for good children ministry materials
• Most volunteers working with children for the first time were so blessed that they committed to participate in more of these programs
• Children, most of whom hardly get any food,  were fed on bread and juice

Prepared by –
Antonina Naya,
PA Children Program coordinator (Volunteer)

Ministry Director’s Prayer point:

This is a vital program in our effort to transform the communities. Investing in the next generation assures us that we will have transformation in this community within a generation. I am blessed to find great volunteers like Antonina and others who willingly give of their time, treasures and talents to reach these children. Our desire is that this work will continue and grow in this community and also expand to other rural communities of Kenya and Africa.

Please pray that God will provide finances for us to continue ministering to these children. Our needs include:

• Fulltime staff to coordiate the children program
• Funds to support travel and accommodation to the communities where we serve
• Food to feed children when we minister to them
• Funds to purchase or develop reliable children ministry resources
• Funding to support economic initiatives for the families of these children.